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Pistacia atlantica is a desert tree. In summer the female trees produce red fruits, some darken and are fertile and dispersed by birds.
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Pistacia atlantica is a desert and steppe tree. In summer the female trees produce red fruits, some darken and are fertile and dispersed by birds.
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Pistacia atlantica is a desert and steppe tree. In summer the female trees produce red fruits, some darken and are fertile and dispersed by birds.
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Pistacia atlantica is a relic tree in the Negev Desert Highlands. These large trees are very impressive in the arid landscapes.
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This is an ancient tree, datoing a few hunderds of years. It is a relic of, an almost extinct, arid park forest that occurs in eastern Israel.
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This is a gal developed on Pistacia atlantica, it is typical for this species and look like a coral.
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Pistacia chinensis is the eastern most pistachio species in the world.
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Pistacia khinjuk is a tree of the colder deserts of SW Asia. In Jordan it is locally common in the Edom Mts (including Petra, where this pic was taken). Here you ca nsee it emerging from a sandstone cliff.
The next population of this tree occurs in Southern Sinai (Egypt).
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Pistacia lentiscus is a large evergreen Mediterranean shrub. Here u can see its fruits, in winter some fruit will remain red for advertisement and the rest will blacken and will be eaten and dispersed by birds.
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Pistacia lentiscus is a large evergreen Mediterranean shrub. Here u can see its fruits, in winter some fruit will remain red for advertisement and the rest will blacken and will be eaten and dispersed by birds.
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This is a common small tree of the Mediterranean region.
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Pistacia terebinthus is a common winter deciduous small tree. These r the red 1-seeded fruits that ddevelop in summer and r dispersed in autumn by migratory birds.
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This is a wild pistachio from which the pistachios we all enjoy are cultivated from. These red pistachios are edbile even fresh.
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Pistacia atlantica 1Location: St. katherine 2002
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Pistacia khinjuk 1Location: Gebel Elba-Wadi el Deib 2003
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Pistacia khinjuk 2Location: Gebel Elba-Wadi el Deib 2003
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Pistacia khinjuk 3Location: Gebel Elba-Wadi el Deib 2003
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Pistacia khinjuk 4Location: Gebel Elba-Wadi el Deib 2003
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